Actor Doug Jones Cast As DC Villain Deathbolt

IGN is reporting that Oliver and the rest of team Arrow will be going up against their first metahuman villain later on this season, when the DC character Deathbolt makes his debut in the nineteenth episode of season three titled, “Broken Arrow.”

Actor Doug Jones, who has appeared in movies such as Batman Returns, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Pan’s Labyrinth, has been cast as Deathbolt, and while in the comics his powers are based on electricity, IGN is saying that for “Arrow,” his powers will be to harness and weaponize plasma energy.

Right now it’s unknown if Deathbolt is a metahuman who got his powers from the particle accelerator in Central City, or if something new will be introduced to explain his abilities. But no matter where he gets his powers from, Oliver’s war on crime in Starling City is about to be taken to another level with the first appearance of a metahuman villain.